Slapped by Kunal Chopra*Note*, Updated on Pg7 - Page 11

Originally posted by: Fariyal

In my belief, it takes a certain mindset to justify violence of any kind & quite evidently, from some posts here, it has little to do with one's educational qualifications!
There will always be a wife beater or a child beater around, so long as there are people who justify & even applaud an act that is punishable by law in many parts of the world.

Kunal the lawyer should have known better. Slapping Richa achieved nothing, except ridding him of some pent up frustration & the unfortunate by-product has been the arousal of the animal instinct in many of the viewers, some of whom don't seem to possess the mental faculties to differentiate between abuse & assault.

My respect for Amir Khan has increased 10 fold, since perusing some posts here... he has a gi-normous uphill task ahead of him!

The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

Originally posted by: jheel1

Not since On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) has James Bond, the quintessential gentlemanly spy-hero ever slapped a woman.😉

@Fariyal, you deserve a pat on the back for trying! If, for every misled person that sides with the wrong doer, there is one who thinks like you, Amir's fight will be all the less laborious and the ensuing victory that much sweeter 👍🏼

The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

-Plato

Originally posted by: BHAVI1972

Well said! 👏 👏.

The mind set has to change. It will not change in one generation. But every generation has to do its role and take a step forward. Communication is a key here.

Anger management should be the key especially when people these days tend to do YOGA so much they should be able to do it easily.😉

Originally posted by: hima2012

Hey! what is so wrong about siding with the person who slapped his ex because she made and is still making his life a living hell? BTW, I don't see what is the big deal about yesterday's slap that brought out so much discussion that too on domestic abuse😕 I can't believe that people are deliberately blowing this so much out of proportion and belittling the ones who support the action. Nothing is wrong with my mindset and I fully support KC slapping richa given the situation yesterday. I am not advocating violence of any sort by doing so. If you have a certain way of looking at it, then even I have a different way of looking at the same thing. Since this is an open forum, I thought I was allowed to voice my opinion as well WITHOUT being judged😒

Originally posted by: shumi.

exactly👏

i wonder this domestic abuse , physical violence, physical abuse on women, principals of a educated man all these came only when a man hit a women( in this case the reason is valid too)

but the same kunal pounded my sweetu non stop in the temple ( cus sweetu wanted to marry his sister with her concern) it was not considered as physical abuse on men, not a domestic abuse , not at all a physical violence, it was the principals of a educated man...😆 WHY SO!?😃

Originally posted by: annie_mckinnen

I will say what I have to say in bullet points for lack of time.

1) I am thankful that I live in a sentient society where we can debate freely any topic that we like without fear of being of repercussions for voicing our opinions. So first a salute to this forum for offering us this platform👏 Thanks Annie for the reassurance.. I was beginning to wonder if I did a huge mistake by joining this forum

2) In my opinion, Fari's entire point was that living in a civilised society we cannot condone violence as a way to settle disagreements or demonstrate emotion because violence but begets violence and accomplishes nothing. I do not support either a man or a woman beating another man or woman or child to express disappointment, fear, anger or any other emotion. If we do, then how better are we from those creatures who don't have the gift of rational thinking.

I agree with you and I don't support any kind of violence either.

3) For those of us who are saying Richa is evil and deserves it, let me ask you this. How do you define evil? In a fit of anger I have called the thief who stole my chain evil and wished death on him. Is he evil? Can I kill him too? Great. Lets all do that. Get rid of the police and all buy guns. Beware of me because I am an angry person.

Please don't compare a chain thief to richa and no one has even thought of killing richa.. it was only a slap! Here, richa is the one going to kill siddhi not the other way around

4) For those of you who justified Kunal's behavior saying, it was a natural reaction in the heat of the moment because Richa had been threatening his wife and child, I say, where do you draw the line of allowed violence? Can I follow the thief who stole my chain and throw him under the bus for that? Perhaps in my warped world, that chain is more valuable than his life. Why do we have the law at all?

Where does throwing anyone under the bus and slapping the person trying to kill his wife not once but several times compare with each other? I don't think the same emotion goes for slapping and throwing someone under a bus

In my opinion, Kunal had already accomplished the task of protecting his wife and child. The rest should have been left to law. He should have walked away from there with his wife, taken a restraining order out on Richa and given her a piece of his mind along with that.

This would have been🤢 Other day siddhi did thesame thing with rohit,, gave him a restraining order against raveena and also gave him her piece of mind.. what good did that do? Did rohit stop interfering? No, infact he is making bigger plans to ruin the whole Chopra family

5) Today you are asking what is the big deal about one slap? Yet there are groups of people who often say what is the big deal with 4000 lives and ram planes into buildings. Who's to say who is the saner of the two?

Again, this is what I call blowing out of proportion.. where is the slapping and where is the terrorist activity you are mentioning.. I am sorry, I do not agree with all these analogies.. just to make a simple thing like a slap look like it is redefining the entire TV viewing audience's nature and advocation of terrorism😕

6) I agree with the person who said violence on TV is not the reason for violence in society. The fact that we are by nature a violent people is becoming very evident to me today. However whether the makers of TV shows like it or not, people are taking a message away from their shows - in this case it is that "If I act macho like Kunal Chopra and slap a woman, my girl friend will be impressed." Whether they like it or not, the makers will have the burden of that understanding on their heads. They have to find a way to deal with it. Just like I complained about the stupidity of the pregnancy that survived a million obstacles, I will also object to the slap that resounded through a thousand young minds.

True.. a violent person need not learn from TV,, he is by nature violent. KC was not acting macho yesterday.. he was only reacting instinctively on the spur of the moment. He did that many times before as well.. that is one of the characteristics of KC.. we all love him for who he is.. a genuine good person. He doesn't become bad just because he slapped richa that too when she was going to kill siddhi in a second.

I am sorry if I am too forthcoming about my opinion on this topic but that is how I feel. Nothing wrong with me or KC!!

Originally posted by: annie_mckinnen

For the record Shumi, as I said above, this is not about terminology. It is about being against violence. When Kunal pounded Rohit, I don't support that either but I was not on the forum at the time to put up my opposition of it.

And whether we like it or not, a man beating a woman in our still male dominated society does send a worse message than a man beating a man.